One of the Christmas side I love most concerns the lots of creative packagings I received from my creative friends - beside the real presents! I'd like to share some of them with you (what remained of them after the assault of my kids : )

Thanks to Morena for the tree box, really perfect; thanks to Elena for the classic photo holder; thanks to Cristina for the snowman little box...

... grazie a Laura per questo dolcissimo biglietto e Francesca per il tenero pinguino!... thanks to Laura for this sweet card and to Francesca for the cutest penguin!

What is X-mas without snow? Since we don't have any here in Italy, I cheere me up with some flakes on a card. I watercoloured the background with Distress pads and I made the snowflakes with one of my floral stamp. I coloured them with Sky Blue Chameleon pen.

When last year my dear friend Laura gave me a beautiful Christmas card (you saw it in this post), I liked the composition so much that I planned to recreate it in some of my cards. Well, here they are! This time without embossing, but with some paper piecing and pencil colouring.

Putting the riddles aside, I wish that this Christmas picture gave you as much the fun as it gave me making it. I masked every characters before stamping the next with Versafine black ink. Then, I embossed them with clear powder and coloured each one with Chameleon pens.

Although I was too young to be at the theatre enjoying the first Star Wars movie, I clearly remember the first time I watched the trilogy at the telly: black and white images in a small screen, in an empty kitchen while my parents were watching some sort of tv-show in the other room.

And I don't think that the fact that I married a fan of Lucas is a coincidence either... This card is for him, and this is the perfect day to share it with you.

The idea is not mine; I found some of the characters made with the Stampin up Owl Builder Punch (you can see here on Pinterest lots of ideas) to which I added some more in this pop-up card.

I close this reportage with a picture where I mingle with two creative bloggers: in the middle Denise (my favourite designer of Impronte d'Autore team -I LOVE colouring her carachters!-) and Annaelle. She shares with me and other teachers the stamping classes in the shop.